CIRCA 1745, ONE WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF JAYS
Circa 1745, one with blue crossed swords mark
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, with brown, black and blue plumage and with striped blue and black wings, perched astride a tapering oak tree -stump applied with acorns, oak leaves, catapillars and beetles, enriched in brown and with green moos and one with a Tom-tit, the other with a wren feeding their fledlings in their nests resting on a branch
15½in. (39.4cm.) high (2)

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Please note that these birds are later decorated

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For a different study by Kändler of a jay see also Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porzellan, 1971, p. 58. For similar models of the nests please see also Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II and Rainer Rückert Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Vol. I, page 484, No. 330.

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